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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1998
Sakae Itoh, Tokyo, JP;
Teruaki Kanzaki, Tokyo, JP;
Tadayuki Akatsuki, Hyogo, JP;
Tatsuya Sakai, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsutomu Numata, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Mitsubishi Electric System LSI Design Corporation, Itami, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A microcomputer contains an electrically erasable flash memory for storing a program under development and a debugging circuit 7 having a dedicated input/output terminal for connection to an external ICE 14, and the debugging circuit 7 has a function of communication with a CPU 1, a function of communication with the ICE 14, a function of tracing the operating condition of the CPU 1, a break function of generating a debug interrupt, a function of writing a program code from the ICE 14 into the flash memory 6 and a function of sending the contents of the flash memory 6 to the ICE 14.